UN Calls for Global Slavery Reparations  

A UN organ is making demands so incredible it would be unbelievable had we not heard similar loud cries from race hucksters a few years ago.

The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published a document titled “General recommendation No. 40 on reparatory justice for the harms and continuing consequences of colonialism, the trafficking in enslaved Africans across the Atlantic and other routes, and racialized chattel slavery.” It calls for immediate “financial compensation, educational initiatives and institutional reforms” to remedy supposed harms that persist today as a result of the transatlantic slave trade, which ended more than 200 years ago (in fact, it was the West that led the charge in eliminating chattel slavery altogether, which had been happening everywhere since time immemorial).

The committee speaks with authority. It claims that the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) treaty “imposes broad and immediate obligations.”

The recommendation is directed at the 182 countries that ratified the ICERD treaty. That includes the United States, the U.K., France, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and many others. You can see the full list here.

Bold Claims, Bold Demands

The ICERD, though more than half a century old, is the basis for the bold demands in the CERD document. The committee also cites additional treaties for support, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Those treaties were adopted, respectively, in 1966 and 1984. The United States has ratified all of them, and they are considered binding.

According to this UN committee, the slave trade might have ended, but it still looms over contemporary laws, policies, and institutions. As a result, everything about Western society is inherently racist. According to the document, modern manifestations of this racist system “include racial profiling and the disproportionate use of force by law enforcement officials; racial disparities in criminal justice systems; and discriminatory laws, policies and institutional practices affecting access to housing, education, employment and health care.”

The documents’ authors claim:

Despite formal legal reforms, racialized violence, stereotyping and structural barriers continue to constrain, inter alia, educational attainment, economic mobility, health outcomes and environmental safety, producing enduring intergenerational disparities.

Structural Implementation

So, action must be taken. The UN Committee “recommends that structural measures be implemented as a matter of policy, thereby recognizing collective harms, even when harms to a specific individual have not been established.” This should include “compensation, restitution and other forms of satisfaction.” It repeats this point several times. And every time it does, it adds another layer of nonsense. The document also says that people may “seek reparations through restitution, compensation, cessation, guarantees of non-repetition, and satisfaction, including acknowledgement of responsibility and apologies.”

The committee also calls for “equality” in politics and the criminalization of speech that offends its version of history. Governments should “condemn and criminalize racist hate speech and the dissemination of theories of racial superiority,” say the authors.

Guilt by Association

What about the countries that weren’t involved in that slave trade? (Conveniently, there is no mention of the African accomplices who participated in the European slave trade.) It doesn’t matter. Everybody needs to pay up. The authors explain why:

While some States bear direct responsibility for trafficking in enslaved Africans and racialized transatlantic chattel slavery others may have benefited from, facilitated, or contributed to sustaining the global economic and racial structures that emerged from these systems. At the same time, there are some States that neither engaged in nor benefited from these practices. Notwithstanding this distinction, all States have a responsibility to support reparatory justice for the legacies of these historical injustices given their enduring global impacts.

There is no excuse for what happened. That includes the norms of the era. “By recognizing the persistence of systemic racism and its roots in historical slavery,” the document says, “the Committee considers that the States Parties should take action today … regardless of the legal framework applicable at the time of the historical acts.”

Trans Inclusion

While putting this document together, the authors decided to include “transgender” individuals on the list of those who need reparatory justice. The “remedies” should be “gender-responsive and transformative,” they write, adding that we should all “recognize and address the distinct and intersecting harms experienced by women, men and persons with diverse gender identities, and the differential continuing consequences of such harms.” The document suggests there should be laws to accommodate transgenders: “Gender sensitivity is essential and should be achieved through legislative, institutional and policy reforms.”

Records Release

The committee calls for nations to track down the culprits and victims. Countries who took part “in transatlantic chattel slavery must promptly release all information needed to reconstruct the full historical record, including details on events, responsible individuals and institutions, beneficiaries and victims.” Moreover:

States Parties should establish independent commissions to investigate and establish the truth, whose composition includes people of African descent and adheres to gender parity and whose mandates and working methods integrate a strong gender perspective.

The Authors

The lead drafters for the document are Pela Boker-Wilson, a human-rights lawyer from Liberia, and Gay McDougall, a lawyer from the United States. McDougall, who has ties to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the globalist think-tank Council on Foreign Relations, got her law degree from the London School of Economics. She also happened to have drafted the 2020 letter calling for UN intervention in America to address “endemic racism.” She was part of the intellectual tier of support for the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots. Furthermore, she even outright suggested that a violent revolt to address supposed systemic racism in America is justified.

The tragic irony is that these types of demands will only accomplish the opposite. They will incite resentment and racism. Perhaps that’s the real intention.

The knee-jerk response is to dismiss these recommendations as nothing more than the ramblings of crazy people who were only hired to tamp down decades of racism allegations within the UN. What are the chances that anything like this would ever be taken seriously, especially since the Trump administration has already shut down similar nonsense earlier this year? In March, Ghana proposed a resolution at the UN to recognize transatlantic ​slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity” and called for reparations. Representative Dan Negrea objected on behalf of the United States to the “cynical usage of ​historical wrongs as a leverage point … to reallocate modern resources to people and nations who are distantly related ​to the historical ⁠victims.” The U.K. also refused to participate in the charade.

Get US Out!

But we remind readers that the climate agenda started in a similar way. For decades, environmentalists lectured the world about catastrophic human-caused climate change and demanded worldwide policy changes. The UN called — and continues to call — for extreme policy changes among the nations. And they’ve been very successful in Europe and North America. For Americans, green policies became impossible to ignore under Barack Obama and reached the pinnacle of implementation during the Joe Biden presidency. Americans are still suffering as a result.

So, just because the current administration will brush off these insane calls it doesn’t mean that a future administration won’t embrace them.

The most important takeaway here is this document serves as another reminder that the United States needs to get out of the UN. Since the UN’s creation, Americans have been its main benefactor. And although the Trump administration has created hardships for the organization, it also just sent it $725 million to keep it afloat. Why should American taxpayers, who are already on the hook for a $40 trillion national debt, continue funding an organization filled with people who hate them?

Visit the John Birch Society’s Get US Out! campaign page for more on the UN and how we can get out.